Nine

"So Katherine, how much, ahem, time did you and Kol spend together?" Bonnie asked hoping that she sounded casual and not prying.

Katherine shrugged. She was fixing her bright red lipstick with deep concentration. "I don't know a couple of months, a year maybe? I can't really remember."

"Were you guys. . .dating?"

Katherine wrinkled her nose. "Me and Kol! God, no. He may be cute, but he can be a train wreck."

"Love you too." Kol said sarcastically and that made Bonnie smiled.

Before Bonnie could ask another question, Katherine put down her lipstick. "God, Bonnie I slept with Kol once 500 years ago, if you want to jump his bones so badly, go forth. You have my blessing. He can't be worse than Jeremy."

Bonnie flushed. "It's not that. I'm not interested in Kol."

"Come on, nobody would blame you," Caroline looked back. "We all know how charming the Mikaelsons can be, especially with their cute little accents."

"Now Bonnie there's no need for that," Kol said casually. "We both know I'm irresistible."

Bonnie stabbed him in the foot with her boot.

"I'm ready."

Bonnie turned around and saw a silver hair witch that had just died and was waiting to pass over. The smile faded off Bonnie's face as she offered her hand. The witch took it and Bonnie felt a sharp pain through her whole body. Bonnie bit her lower lip and held back her screams.

"Are you ok?" Kol asked. "Does that normally happen?"

"More than I wish it did." Bonnie sighed. Kol had a look of slight pity on his face.

"I would rather be dead than be suffering every minute of my life." Katherine replied. "Don't you have some special anchor power to stop the pain?"

Bonnie shook her head.

"We'll figure something out Bonnie," Caroline promised as they passed the Welcome to New Orleans sign. "I'm not just going to sit by and watch my friend be pummeled by supernatural ghosts while we start our new lives.

"We are not staying here." Katherine said, obviously disgusted. They had just entered New Orleans and Caroline had parked her car in the local parking lot while the girls looked around for hotels. Bonnie didn't care where they stayed as long as she had her own personal room and bathroom since she often received "special visitors" during the night.

Bonnie sighed as he leaned back against the wall. Leave it to Caroline and Katherine, the worst drama queens to be fighting over something as simple as a hotel room.

They were standing in front of small hotel made entirely of tiny wooden cabins that Caroline found cute. "What's wrong with it?" Caroline asked, obviously offended. "I think it's quaint."

"Quaint?" Katherine scoffed. "I'm not going to be staying in a cheap cabin that looks like the setting of little red riding hood." She pulled out a flyer from her purse. "We're staying here, it's this new hotel they opened. Luxury bedrooms and best of all spa, because we both know that Bonnie definitely needs a massage if she has to deal with Kol."

Bonnie brightened as she imagine relaxing for a whole day. "A spa might be nice."

After a minute, Caroline seemed convinced. "Ok, fine. But I'm picking where we go out tonight to celebrate our first day in New Orleans."

'I just hope I don't spend mine in a body bag." Katherine replied gloomily.

"I already told you, I'll speak to Klaus."

That didn't seem to reassure Katherine.

The three girls each booked a luxury suite in New Orleans, newest hotel chain, The Falcon. The three bedrooms were only separated by a door so the girls could come back and forth through each room.

Katherine bounced on Caroline's bed. She was freshly showered and wearing a new outfit- a tight red top, leather jacket, black skinny jeans, and red pumps. Caroline hadn't even showered yet and was too busy color coding her closet even though Katherine had just threw her suitcase inside. Bonnie had decided to take a well deserve nap, so Katherine didn't bother on disturbing her.

"Caroline, no one cares what your closet looks like." She rolled her eyes.

"I care." Caroline said. "I need to separate jeans, sweaters, and dresses and then there's shoes."

"You can organize when we come back." Katherine's stomach was feeling queasy. "I really just want to get the whole Klaus pardon over thing. In case you've forgotten thanks to Elena, I'm a baby vampire again which means I can't ran as fast. So put on your sexiest underwear and go!"

"I can't go now," Caroline said. "I need to take a shower and blow dry my hair, I'm all road trippy gross. Besides if you're that anxious to see Elijah why don't you go talk to him by yourself? I'm sure he's not stuck to Klaus every second of his life."

Katherine paused. "I'm not anxious to see Elijah."

Caroline rolled her eyes. "Yeah, and I'm not a control freak."

"She's not there, Niklaus," Elijah said tiredly. Klaus had been looming over and checking through every window of the Forbes house for half an hour. "It's almost time for the school year to begin, perhaps she's back at college."

Klaus shook his head. "It's too early." He paused. "Do you think she'll get mad if I throw a rock through her window to get in?"

"Very much so. Just call her."

"I don't have her number." He lied.

Elijah sighed in annoyance. "You don't have the number of the woman you have become so fond off." He kept looking over his shoulder.

"If you're waiting for Katerina to pop out of the bushes you're wasting your time." Klaus snapped. "I need a drink."

The two brother headed off to The Grill and they were relieved when they saw Matt and Tyler at the bar. He clasped his hand on Tyler's shoulder. Tyler flinched. He hadn't seen Klaus since he had kidnapped Hayley. "Just the man I wanted to see."

Tyler drown a drink. "What the hell are you doing here, Klaus?"

Klaus didn't miss a beat. "I'm looking for Caroline and my brother here is looking for the Petrova doppelganger, both of them who seemed to have gone missing."

"Katherine ditched town the minute she got cured." Tyler said flatly, his voice rising. It was obvious he knew that Klaus and Caroline had slept together. "As for Caroline, who knows? Knowing her she's probably screwing the first guy that says hello to her."

Something in Klaus snapped as he gripped Tyler by the neck and dug his fingernails on his neck. "Careful, mate I would so hate to rip your throat out. But if you speak one more bad word about Caroline I won't hesitated to do so."

"Klaus, leave the boy alone." Elijah hissed when he noticed that the people around them were staring.

Klaus didn't let go off Tyler.

"Caroline and Katherine are in New Orleans." Matt blurted out. "Along with Bonnie, I don't know why, but they made it some kind of road trip. You're here, but they are in New Orleans."

-End of Chapter Nine-

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